Tho:You try to hold your breath, but soon start to gag. About to vomit, you rip off your mask and inadvertently gasp in a few breaths of stale air, causing 2 strain.

The creature on you isn't so much a creature, but the melted remains of a Rodian, a spanner in its deathgrip, still tangled in wires... wires that come from outside...

It's at that moment that you notice that your crewman is completely horizontal, desperately gripping at the edge of a panel. The Rodian corpse is ripped from you and flung out the broken cockpit glass, and you feel yourself quickly accelerating towards the breach as the sudden change in pressure pulls air from the cabin.

You grasp on tightly to the crewman's leg as the air races past you. Dangling inside the cockpit itself, you just so happen to see two important things. First, is the safety blast shield lever for the cockpit near your face, and the second is the massive acid storm looming on the horizon and getting closer at an alarming rate.

Josiah:The droid begins to whirl around wildly as you grab on, scrambling to find an off switch or any way to disable it.

Difficult computers check total: 4 Successes, 3 Threat

You disable the droid by quickly pulling out its control and memory circuitry from an exposed port simultaneously disabling the droid and nabbing whatever useful information would be in its memory. Unfortunately, the ancient droid's circuits can't handle the sudden change in wiring, and with a pop louder than a bad motivator going off, the droid's head a explodes, with a shower of sparks and smoke that travels down the length of the droid. The cargo bay begins to fill with smoke until the lack of oxygen causes the fire to go out.

The droid is an unsalvageable wreck, and the smoke would have been quite a problem, if wasn't being pulled towards the bow of the ship, along with much of the atmosphere, through the open cargo bay door.

Warning klaxons blare, two simultaneous alarm warnings bleat out on top of each other seeming to indicate oncoming space hazards, and a hull breach at the same time.

Josiah, shaken up a bit, and with his ears still ringing from the explosion, gets up and starts to run back towards the docking collar with the droids control and memory circuitry in hand. Looking at the crew with him: "Grab anything you can that is light enough to carry, we gotta get off this boat! I am gonna check on Tho."

Josiah:"Um, sir? I think I'll need some help with these," says your unnamed crewman, looking through a hatch into the rear engineering compartment, just as you are about to walk out the door.

From your vantage point, you see a female Twilek and a Wookie, collapsed in just inside the doorway.

"Was hoping they'd have extra filters for life support, but I guess we found another Wookie to pull the other one out of the vents." He grabs the smaller the lighter Twilek and throws her over his shoulder, and with a smirk points you to the Wookie, while also grabbing some parts you can't identify to stuff inside his rucksack.

Tho:"Just out of reach, you strain for the lever.

Make a 2 difficulty dice Athletics check to see if you can get to the lever and keep a grip.

"Oh sure, take the light one..." mutters Josiah as he struggles to lift the Wookie over his shoulder. Carrying the Wookie over his shoulder, Josiah slowly makes his way back towards the docking collar, keeping an eye out for any other unconscious crew.

"We gotta get a move on, I hope Tho is ok and waiting for us at the docking collar."

Josiah:As you exit the aft cargo bay, Wookie in tow, you feel pressure change again as whatever had been pulling atmosphere from the ship stopped. However, you feel your skin tingling more than usual, as whatever replaced it carried with it the acidic tinge of the gas giant's atmosphere. There's a slight shudder, as the ship's gravity once again lists to the side, shifting the unsecured cargo again, but not fast enough to be a threat.

Tho:With a hydraulic *shump!* the blast shield shudders into place over the broken cockpit glass. You and your nameless crewman fall to the floor, the air pressure rapidly normalizing. Silence falls in the thinner ship atmosphere.

Looking around, you see that, amazingly, the cockpit still has power. Most of the consoles have been eaten away by acid, but some still look operable. However, anything of value seems to have been sucked outside or melted away at some point.

Tho:You and the crewman grip the doorway and start to pull, but as you do so, the ship begins a final turn in its death spiral, bringing everything at a 45 degree angle. Sounds and steel groaning and shearing can be heard from all over the ship, but most distressingly so are the nearby sounds of destruction coming from the docking ring.

Make an easy Athletics check, but with a setback die to keep composure.

Josiah:You round the corner to see Tho and a crewman struggling to pry open a doorway when you are almost thrown from your feet. The ship bucks and then turns to a 45 degree angle before settling.

Make an Challenging Athletics check, to stay on your feet as you teeter on the edge of what was formerly a corridor, now a tube slide down.

(OOC going to try and maintain a proper update schedule this week, to make up for the delays)

Tho:Pulling as hard as you can, the ship's sudden change in orientation throws your feet out from under you, dangling in the air, but you maintain a grip on the doorway as your weight seems to pull it slightly more open, so that a second figure, a small Rodian is visible behind the human, also wearing a breathe mask.

Josiah:You reach out, but fall to the floor as the ship pitches to one side, but you manage to grab onto the ledge and prevent yourself from sliding further down the corridor. You can see the trapped figures that Tho is trying to free ahead, but also hear the groaning metal behind you from the docking ring.

"Josiah!" a worried voice comes over the comm, "That ship is coming apart and we're headed straight for an acid storm. You've got maybe 3 minutes before we gotta leave! I think I can buy you a little more time by using our ship's thrusters, but it's going to put a lot of strain on the docking ring, the whole skrogging thing could snap apart!"

Josiah: You rummage through the dilapidated circuitry looking for a way to power the door, when you spot an old and unused secondary circuit line. Tapping into it and running a small bit of power through the line from your toolkit, causes the lights to shudder and flicker, deep within the bowels of the ship a large machine starts to churn and gravity slowly begins righting itself. The door shudders just a bit more open.

Tho: With Josiah's help, the door flies open. Your crewman and you catch the pair as they fall out the open doorway, onto the floor of the corridor, which is no longer slanted. This time, you caught the smaller Rodian, as your crewman shoulders the Human.

Tho: With gravity mostly corrected, you quickly drag the unconscious people to the docking ring where your other crewman takes over.

Upon grabbing the unconscious form off your shoulder, he says, "Don't know what you two did, but there's partial gravity and power. But it's only bought us a minute or two and we're still headed into that acid storm."

Josiah: As you peek into the cockpit, you notice that one of the ship's cockpit systems hasn't been completely melted by the acid storms, some kind of old style flight recorder and secondary navigation system. With the partially restored power, a dim red light blinks at you in the darkness.

Josiah: You enter the cockpit. There is a huge hole in the cockpit glass and everything is pock marked with acid burns. At some point something seems to have died in here, and you're not sure what Tho was up to here. But, hidden underneath the main console, directly under where most nav computers would be, seems to be a smaller, secondary system bolted on and connected. Although sheltered from most of the acid storm, its surface is still mostly melted away, except for a red light shining in the dark.

Josiah will get out his toolkit and investigate the secondary system, and see if it can be unbolted and disconnected. Josiah will try and determine if this is some sort of tracking beacon, or a nav system override.

Josiah:The box is trivially easy to remove, partly because most of the retaining bolts have been melted, and in part because it looks like the system was haphazardly added as a repair. The electronics inside, however, are another matter as it seems someone packed this box with a mish mash of parts almost thrown together in the semblance of a nav computer.

Make a 3 difficulty die Computers check. The attempt will take 1 minute.

Josiah:Quickly identifying the data storage unit, and its archaic design, you go through a sequence to properly decouple the drive and it's associated parts from the box. While doing so, you notice a secondary memory unit, a tiny thing cobbled on the back of another unrelated part, and pop it apart as well. The red light dims and disappears, you shove the parts into your pocket.